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In message <isaq5i41eti@news2.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:

> ("the most portable language in the world" is a
> vapid claim, since "portable" is not well-defined and there's no
> metric for "most".)

Most languages (including Java) that claim to be “portable” seem to be 
implemented in C. Therefore they can only be ported to platforms where a C 
compiler (or cross-compiler) is already available. Therefore,

    Portability(all such languages) ⊆ Portability(C)

or even

    Portability(all such languages apart from C) ⊂ Portability(C)

> It's rare to find non-trivial C source that
> doesn't make assumptions about the implementation: CHAR_BIT,
> endianness, character set, etc.

Try this <http://www.blender.org/>. Is a million lines “non-trivial” enough 
for you?